Who:Dr Susan Cahill, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University

Venue:Room 137 Robert Webster Building

When:26 Jun 2012, 4pm - 5:30pm

This paper explores the proliferation of fiction aimed at girls, written by Irish women between 1870-1920 such as L.T. Meade, Rosa Mulholland, Flora Shaw, and J.M Callwell. Despite its contemporary popularity, this is a literature that is critically neglected, due perhaps to its middle-class, young, female audience; its associations with popular culture; and its Victorian outlook, at odds with the literary project of the Irish Literary Revival.

BLOOMSDAY ON BONDI 2012 - a celebration of James Joyce's masterpiece Ulysses. Join in the community spirit as we follow in the footsteps of Ulysses' hero Leopold Bloom as he makes his way around the streets and sights of Edwardian Dublin.

Responding to Patrick O'Farrell's spirited attempt to turn Anglo-Irish history inside out in Ireland's English Question, this lecture will seek cultural and political explanations for the prevalence of various myths about the Irish in Australia.